Tarot, A Questionable Proposition, Part I

Tarot, A Questionable Proposition, Part II

Mary Greer & Cold Reading, part I

Do YOU H8•W8?
International symbol of the Waite-HatersH8•W8’ers include:1. Cartofeminists—Greerist oinkers who want to cut off your tail with a carving knife.2. Pro-Pamists—people who love Pixie Smith, whoever she was, and just want her to get the credit she is due, for stealing all that Sola-Busca artwork. Meanwhile, more jobs for China!.3. Crowleyites—because Aleister repeatedly told them Waite sucked.4.

Future of Fortunetellers Looks Dim
After all, who needs a fortuneteller, or even one of those fancy "intuitive" readers, when your employer or government snoop can just read your handy-dandy brain scan, showing not only what you think, but picture-images of everything you see, including images from your dreams!Don't worry, you'll get used to it. In fact, you'll grow to love it (him).Sound like Minority Report scif-fi?Nope, it's

Tarot Weapons
There are a lot of basic occult-Tarot ideas that get glossed over or ignored in pop-Tarot books, or in online discussions, because these are allegedly motifs of Tarot’s dark side, and so, according to the self-appointed “light-side” advocates, they are best left veiled. One of these little-discussed concepts is that Tarot is a weapon, or a set of weapons. Why should anyone wish to advocate such a

Cartofeminists Review Harry Roseland's Fortuneteller Paintings
While I don't regularly read Mary Greer's Tarot blog, lately the Tarot spirits have once again been bringing her comments to my attention. This time I found a Tarot mention in some blog called "Feministe", written by a creature called "Aunt B", and B was blaming her own absurd notions on America's most popular cartofeminist, Mary K. Greer.So, Greer wrote a piece on July 19 of this year on the

Tarotmania
On the left, Tarot Therapy, otherwise known as Tarotmania, on the right the infamous Tarotmania Map, showing the Tarot world, c. 2002.Someone asked me a question on the Facebook Tarotica group: “What is the definition of a Tarotmaniac?”It should of course be easy to answer a question like that. It is, actually. But consider that a definition is something like a biography, and the more we edit for